Ronald Acuña Jr. Delivers As Atlanta Braves Look To Vanquish Philadelphia Phillies

Welcome back in to From the Diamond with Grant McAuley here on Sports Radio 92.9 The Game.

We're live from the Kia studios.

It's Sunday.

We close out the weekend.

Series not done, though.

But the Braves back in the driver's seat as they dramatically take one from the Philadelphia Phillies to go up two games to one in this four-game set with the finale on Labor Day afternoon.

So a lot of fun still ahead for Atlanta and Philadelphia, at least we hope it's going to be fun.

His first three games have been a little bit more of that playoff caliber baseball that I think everybody's been wanting to see.

How's the team going to perform? Let's do a pressure test.

Let's see.

Here in the second half, they have passed a lot of those tests.

Maybe none bigger than the Los Angeles Dodgers coming into this seven-game soiree that they have for the Philadelphia Phillies to start September.

to hold on to the division, but you're starting to see some glimpses of maybe what this club is made of, and that is something that I think a lot of folks have been anxious to see.

I mean, getting down the stretch here and where these games are, as I talked about earlier, it's more than just an April game, an April series, where the Braves did take five out of six from the Phillies to start the year, and that certainly is helping out right about now because if you do the math at this point, the two teams play 13 total times, The Braves have won seven of those games, so now they have a tiebreaker if that even needs to come into play.

You hope that it doesn't.

You hope it's just one of those things you're like, oh, that's great, and just put it in your back pocket.

And then you don't have to speak about it again because there is no tie.

And that's kind of the way you want it to be.

And by no tie, I mean you finish ahead and you never have to pull that out and cash in that chip.

But overall, I really feel like the Braves have started to show a little bit more here in the second half of some reasons why you can start to look at them and expect them to come through in big moments and big games.

And it's not always going to be the prettiest.

You're not always going to lead from the first inning on.

You'd love if that were the case.

But I think they've shown a lot of resilience, and that's something Walt White's been talking about, about this club just being able to bounce back quickly, to be resilient.

It's the nature of a season, a baseball season.